Gerry Kelly

Gerry Kelly (5 April 1953-) was a Sinn Fein executive and a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast North from 25 June 1998.

Biography
Gerry Kelly was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland on 5 April 1953, and he volunteered for the Provisional IRA in 1972. He was one of the perpetrators of the 1973 Old Bailey bombing in London, England, and he was sentenced to two life sentences in prison after being captured. Kelly took part in a 60-day hunger strike alongside several other IRA prisoners, demanding to be classified as a political prisoner and transferred to Northern Ireland. On 25 September 1983, he took part in a prison break from Maze Prison, but he was arrested in the Netherlands in 1986; in 1989, he was released due to extradition terms agreed between the British and Dutch governments. From 1990 to 1993, Kelly and Martin McGuinness took part in peace negotiations with the British government, and he was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 as a Sinn Fein member.